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French President Busted For Copyright Violation

Posted by kdawson on from the do-as-i-say dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZeroPaid has an interesting take on the story of Nicolas Sarkozy being accused of copyright infringement. The irony, of course, is Sarkozy's pushing of a 3-strikes law — disconnecting from the Internet those accused of file sharing — in France and across the EU. The French president had apparently offered to settle the copyright infringement accusation for one Euro, but the band rejected the offer, calling it an insult. The article notes that each year since 2006, a high-profile anti-piracy entity has been on the wrong end of a copyright infringement notice. In 2008, Sony BMG was sued for software piracy. In 2007, anti-piracy outfit BASCAP received a cease and desist order related to pirated software. And in 2006, the MPAA was accused of pirating 'This Film is Not Yet Rated'."

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  1. The band in question by bedonnant · · Score: 5, Interesting

    is MGMT, for what it's worth. When the band decided to sue, Sarkozy's party offered a "symbolic euro" for compensation.

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    ~~~ Paf. Le chien.
  2. We have our Sarkozy in Chile, too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here in Chile, the president of the SCD (Society of Author Rights) was caught with pirated software, in a powerpoint lecture about... you guessed it... PIRACY! (they are triying to copy the spanish law, taxing the internet connection for the "lost of revenues")

    http://www.elnortero.cl/admin/render/noticia/18164

    An our congress try to pass a 3-strikes law for ISPs... with a word document created by a SCD lawyer with a pirated copy of windows ("UE, The Houze"). There are even commemorative t-shirts!

    http://url.ie/10xd

    http://www.elfrancotirador.cl/2009/01/15/ponte-la-camiseta-con-el-acceso-a-cultura/

    There are RIAAs scammers in every country.

  3. Re:Hypocrisy as the norm... by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    These things have *always* happened.

    The only difference is that cameras, record-keeping databases, and surveillance have all gotten much better over the last thirty years.

    Hell some of the early popes had mistresses.

    Power corrupts.

    The only real solution is shrinking the amount of power and wealthy any one person can have. And that boat has sailed.

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    She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.